YOUR MASTER PLAN

Business transcends borders. Our postgraduate courses are designed to do the same. We also ensure that our courses incorporate internships or study opportunities abroad. By choosing to study at Aston, you are making a choice to join a global business community.

Business is the world’s common language and a masters from Aston will teach you how to speak it. What we do here is more than a top-up for your undergraduate degree. It’s a chance to transform your thinking. It’s your opportunity to make new connections and deepen your understanding of a specific sector. It’s about you going further.

We go the extra mile too. In addition to your internships and studies abroad, we’ll give you the Aston Edge, our Professional Development Programme taught by the gurus of business, commerce and industry. It’s designed to shape your leadership skills and teach you the art of managing people.

Join the ranks

We've built our reputation on credibility, results and service to our students.

We’re triple accredited. This means we are in the top 1% of Business Schools globally with accreditation from the three major accrediting bodies, AMBA, AACSB and Equis.

We have been awarded Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF, 2017).

Ten of Aston Business School’s courses have been ranked in the top 100 in the UK and Western Europe in the Eduniversal Best Masters Ranking 2017.

Top 150 in the world for Business & Management (QS World University Rankings, 2017).

Top 200 in the world for Accounting & Finance (QS World University Rankings, 2017).

MSc International Business is 7th in the UK and 33rd in the world (The Economist’s Masters in Management ranking, 2017).

Aston Business School is ranked 11th in the UK and 4th highest in Western Europe for ‘significant international excellence’ (Eduniversal Business School Ranking, 2016).

94th in the world and top 15 in the UK for Business & Economics (THE World University rankings, 2016)

Accreditations

Many of our courses are accredited by professional bodies and some even give you exemptions for your professional exams keeping you one step ahead of the competition.
Some of the accrediting bodies that offer exemptions include:

ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants)

CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants)

CIPD (The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development).

We'll give you the edge

Get more from your masters degree. We offer a variety of added benefits to all of our MSc students designed to ensure that you get the most out of your degree and time with us.

Professional Development Programme
Our innovative professional development and employability module allows you to take part in an integrated work internship or study abroad opportunity. Alongside this, you'll learn the core business skills required of aspiring business professionals.

Dedicated Careers Support
With our MSc careers consultant here to provide you with one-to-one careers support, careers workshops and fairs attended by top names in industry, an MSc at Aston will help you to achieve your career goals.

Funding
Completing a masters degree is a big investment in your future and we want to ensure that those who have the desire and skill to study also have the opportunity. Each year we have a variety of scholarships available to prospective students to help ease the financial pressure of continuing your studies.

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Student body

Average Class Size: 20-100Percentage of International Students: 71%Number of Incoming exchange students: Varies each year

Entry requirements

To make an application for one of our MSc courses, you will require one of the following:

A good UK honours degree (2.2 minimum).

An equivalent overseas degree recognised by Aston Business School.

Plus

A completed application form, available on our website www.aston.ac.uk/apply

An official academic transcript of your university grades to date.

Two professional references, at least one of which must be from an academic referee.

For international students

An official academic transcript with an English translation of your university grades to date.

International students whose native language is not English will also need to satisfy our English language requirements with one of the following:

IELTS score of 6.5 overall, with a minimum of 6 in speaking, listening, reading and writing.

TOEFL Internet Based Test score of 93 overall, 19 in speaking and listening, 18 in reading and 23 in writing*.

PEARSON ACADEMIC score of 63 overall, with a minimum of 57 in speaking, listening, reading and writing*.

CAE University of Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English: Grade A or CPE University of Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English:
Grade C*.

If you studied for a minimum period of two years in the UK and achieved at least a 2:2 within the last two years then we would normally consider you to have met our English language requirements.

If you studied for a minimum period of one year in the UK and achieved at least a 2:1 within the last two years then we would normally consider you to have met our English language requirements.

Alternatively if you have been domiciled in a majority English-speaking country for 2 years prior to application then we may consider the requirements met.

Applicants meeting either of these criteria may not be required to present an IELTS as part of a Tier 4 (General) visa application. Pre-sessional English language programmes are available for good applicants whose English qualification falls just short of these requirements.

Please note that if we have not received sufficient evidence of analytical and quantitative stills with your application, we may request a minimum GMAT score of 550 to support your application.

*TOEFL, Pearson, CAE and CPE scores are subject to terms and conditions.